The 1980s was the beginning of RPGs becoming a fan-favorite video game genre, thanks in large part to these five franchises.

Publisher Fellow Traveller and developer Wispfire have announced Red Kiss, a “dark and stylish” narrative RPG about a house ...

Publisher PQube and developer Full Stop Studios have announced The Detectorist Guild, a “low-pressure” detective RPG experience set in a peaceful English village in the year 1999. It ...

Pathfinder: Kingmaker is an isometric computer RPG that will take players on a tour through the infamous Stolen Lands, the dangerous and turbulent territories well known within Pathfinder fandom. The ...

Out of all major video game genres, RPGs may be the most difficult to fully define. Most have some shared core concepts, such as a leveling system or other character progression methods, or a more ...

The computer role-playing game, most widely known as the RPG, turns 50 today! Well, as close as we can pin it, anyway. Happy birthday, RPGs! In 1974, the year Dungeons & Dragons began publication, a ...

RPGs are much older than many people realize. Some of the earliest RPGs, like Dungeon and pedit5, date all the way back to the 1970s. That said, most of those early RPGs were only accessible via ...